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Ordinary Love

Lisa Barros D'Sa
Glenn Leyburn, 91 minutes, 2019

This film was released on 6th December 2019  and is no longer screening. Retired Belfast couple Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, over the years, learned to live with the death of their teenage daughter. Their existence is…

The Other Lamb

Malgorzata Szumowska, 97 minutes, 2019

Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a…

The Other Side of Sleep

Rebecca Daly, 93 minutes, 2011

Following a series of stylised and distinctive shorts, director Rebecca Daly here makes her feature debut with this dreamlike vision of an isolated and paranoid young girl. Transformed by past traumas into a chronic sleepwalker, Arlene Kelly’s (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) fragile…

Ouch!

Ken Wardrop, 93 minutes, 2004

A funny and touching examination of life on either side of a foreskin divide. Also available as part of Wardrop's Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.

Our Boys

Cathal Black, 42 minutes, 1981

Politically and technically bold, this short docu-drama from Cathal Black fuses dramatisation, interviews, and archive footage in an exposé of the culture of fear and brutality that defined the regime in educational institutions run by the Christian Brothers. The narrative…

Our House

Peter Young, 88, 2026

A gripping and assured feature debut from writer-director Peter Young, developed through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Programme, Our House is a tightly wound family thriller that channels simmering resentment into nerve-shredding suspense. Anchored by an outstanding ensemble of emerging…

Our Land

Eoin Harnett, 6 minutes, 2019

A short documentary detailing Ireland’s reputation, culture, and future from the perspective of seven young inhabitants of the country. Stylised as a light-hearted reflection piece, Our Land provides the spectator with an understanding of how the interviewees’ regard Ireland as…

Out Of Here

Donal Foreman, 80 minutes, 2013

Made with a quiet authenticity that belies its nature as fiction, Out Of Here tells the story of a generation through its central figure of Ciaran (Fionn Walton) and his restlessness upon returning to Ireland after a year of travelling.…

The Outcasts

Robert Wynne-Simmons, 104 minutes, 1982

Set in rural, pre-famine Ireland, a time when poverty and magic were accepted as facts of life, this is the haunting tale of a young girl's discovery of her own powers through a 'a wild, ungodly man' and the passage…

Outitude: The Irish Lesbian Community

Sonya Mulligan, 90 minutes, 2018

A heartfelt documentary that explores the definitions, connections and commonalities of what it means to be lesbian. Through interviews and group discussions with all facets of the Irish LGBTQI+ community, the film delves into the lives of rural and urban…

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